PhD students Grace McGowan and Perri Meldon are teaching two awesome courses for AMNESP this summer. Please share with anyone who might be interested. Registration for Summer Term 2021 opens on February 25! More information on the courses can be found here.
Please join Professor Kim Sichel (Department of History of Art & Architecture) for a virtual book talk celebrating her recent publication. The book was published by Yale University Press and the talk is being sponsored by the Addison Gallery of American Art.
The 2020 edition of our annual newsletter, The Boston Americanist, is now available to be viewed here! While the year had a more bizarre end that we would have liked, our students, faculty, and alumni all had some major accomplishments, and we could not be more proud.
Dear AMNESP Doctoral Students: In recent years, we have gathered together at the end of the Spring semester to reflect upon recent accomplishments within the program and to plan for the days ahead. Unfortunately, this year the global pandemic robbed us of this opportunity to be together, as it has deprived many of so much. […]
Dear AMNESP Students, As this uncertain time continues it becomes increasingly difficult. Many of us are isolated from our families and support networks. Some have relatives who are ill and require care. All of us are unclear about the future. Boston University’s faculty and administration are working at full capacity to find ways […]
Dear AMNESP students, Please know that the AMNESP faculty and staff have been thinking about you during these difficult times. Our current situation is unprecedented and we are aware that the global health crisis has increased the difficulty of this semester. However, please let me also offer to you words of reassurance. While Boston University […]
AMNESP is hosting a talk by Professor Nathaniel Walker of The College of Charleston’s Department of Art & Architectural History entitled “Reconciliation Amid the Ruins: Charleston’s Traumatic History and the Architecture of the American Future.” The talk is on Monday, March 23rd at 5:30pm in BU’s College of Arts & Sciences Building, Room 132 (675 […]
Prof. William Moore will be presenting a lecture entitled “Inventing the Shaker Aesthetic: Industrial Photography, Museum Exhibitions, and American Modernism, 1923-1939” at the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts on Saturday, February 1, at 2 pm. Details and directions are available here: http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/metro-west/event-50256.html